multispined
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- (anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to a structure having multiple spines.
- 1872, F.V. Hayden, Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Μontana and Portions of Adjacent Territories Being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 437:
- Posterior tibiæ multispined; spines alternately long and short.
- 2024 May 15, Kevin Lee Teather, The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females, Oxford University Press, page 131:
- Male red-sided garter snakes have a multispined hemipenis with a sizeable basal spine that is inserted into the female during the reproductive bout.